Conference Agenda

Session

Laser Welding – Steel/Keyhole/AI

Time:

Thursday, 24/Sept/2026:

2:00pm - 3:20pm

Location: Heinrich-Lades-Halle - Conference Room K4

Rathauspl. 2 91052 Erlangen

Presentations

2:00pm - 2:20pm

Bayesian Optimization of Dynamic Beam Shaping in Laser Welding Using a Low-Dimensional Beam Parametrization

Kim Glumann, Tobias Ehnis, Michael Sawannia, Robin Klöpfer, Volkher Onuseit, Andreas Michalowski

Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW), Germany

2:20pm - 2:40pm

Autonomous calibration of OCT lag distance for the monitoring of the laser weld depth

Serge André Dib¹, Alessandro Maggioni¹, Daniele Colombo², Ali Gökhan Demir¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Via La Masa 1, 20156 Milano; ²BLM Group Adige Spa, Via Per Barco 11, 38056 Levico Terme, Italy

2:40pm - 3:00pm

Investigation On Hybrid Laser-Arc Welding of Thick Steel Plates Using a High-Power Laser Beam Source with Temporal Power Modulation

Daniel Maiwald¹, Rabi Lahdo¹, Jörg Hermsdorf¹, Stefan Kaierle^1,2, Sarah Seffer¹

¹Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany; ²Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

3:00pm - 3:20pm

Laser welding technology and joining properties for new material concepts in flight control gearboxes

Dirk Dittrich¹, Axel Jahn¹, Uwe Stamm¹, Sebastian Schettler¹, Markus Wagner¹, Habib Stegmann², Christian Müller²

¹Fraunhofer Institute For Material And Beam Technology, Germany; ²Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH, Germany